Sunday: Legal Aspects of the First Day of the Week

Ringgold, James T. Sunday. Legal Aspects of the First Day of the Week. Jersey City: Frederick D. Linn & Co., 1891. xxii, 321 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-332-4. Cloth. $75. * This treatise surveys all known laws relating to Sunday and urges their rejection while it refutes any arguments defending their legality. Contents: "Constitutionality of Sunday Laws in the United States," "Sunday as a Dies Non Juridicus," "Sunday in the Computation of Time," "Sunday Liquor-Selling" and "The Prohibition of Sunday-Labor." With a chronological outline of laws concerning Sunday observance from Antiquity to the present and a table of Sunday laws in each state.

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Página 8 - Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbathday. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates.